Adam Shirley

The ACT Firearms Registry remains mostly paper based. Both police and the government say the "very analogue" system needs to go fully digital as soon as possible. 

Your health is at stake as climate change impacts deepen, but it's not too late to do something about it, according to the new chair of the ACT Climate Council. And some Australians making hyperlocal changes are already reaping surprising benefits.

Questionable uses of force by staff on children and insufficient recording of incidents in Canberra's only youth prison are just a few of the critical findings in an independent oversight committee's new report.

The university says it will save $60 million through salary reductions with $40 million to go. Its broader savings target is $250 million.

Former member of the Australian National University council Liz Allen has used a Senate inquiry investigating university governance to allege Chancellor Julie Bishop harassed, bullied, and threatened her.

The Canberra Symphony Orchestra writes directly to the ANU's leadership about proposed changes that would see traditional one-to-one instrument lessons discontinued.

Plans to overhaul the 60-year-old ANU School of Music, including dropping one-on-one instrument lessons, have been met with shock and dismay by students and former staff.

The Australian National University announces more staff cuts across academic and professional roles, as part of its broader goal to save $250 million by the end of the year.

Canberra mother Veronica Fortune says the road past her local school is an accident waiting to happen. She's written to MLAs about safety improvements and campaigned for adjustments to the roads, but so far nothing has changed.

Criticism of the ACT Revenue Office stamp duty concession scheme intensifies, including calls for reform within the legislative assembly, after Canberrans received notices they owed tens of thousands of dollars within a few weeks. 

Hundreds of Canberrans are having to pay back tens of thousands of dollars at short notice, after finding out they're no longer eligible for home stamp duty concessions.

A fortnight after two St Edmund's College students were hit by an alleged stolen car on a median strip outside their school, principal Tim Cleary says "common sense" changes like a 40kph school zone must be made.

While experts weigh in on the great energy debate, one builder says the industry has already made up its mind.

Police confirm they are investigating allegations a detainee was assaulted by an employee at Bimberi Youth Justice Centre in Canberra, which the Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children says she was recently refused access to.

Motorsport fans lap up the first round of the Australian Rally Championship held in the forests surrounding Canberra, with Lewis Bates securing victory on home turf for the first time. 

About 100 undergraduate and Masters teaching students in the ACT are in classrooms without supervision, in a program designed to help with the chronic teacher shortage. But does putting them in the classrooms earlier lead to burn out faster?

The head of orthopaedic surgery at Canberrra Hospital resigns, along with several other surgeons, citing concerns over operational decisions being made by Canberra Health Services. 

The second stage of Canberra suburb Denman Prospect was set to be built on Bluetts Block in the Molonglo Valley, but it has now been declared a nature reserve to preserve its ecological value.

The new ACT treasurer is facing an ambitious task of turning an almost billion-dollar deficit into a small surplus — and he's hoping to improve the books by $850 million in just a matter of months.